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I had a 9500 a few years ago, it worked OK and had a ball bearing fan, thought that was good and all. Must use the crappiest ball bearing fan available, 1 year later the bearing was making all sorts of noise.

I still have it lying around, probably will reuse it sometime when I get around to rigging a different fan to it.
 
Originally posted by: junkyardDawg
Newegg has got the 9700 zalman for about $40 shipped, seems like decent bang for your buck, especially if looks and silence are important
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I wouldn't recommend Zalman for silence. Ever. Not even for quiet computing.
 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
I had a 9500 a few years ago, it worked OK and had a ball bearing fan, thought that was good and all. Must use the crappiest ball bearing fan available, 1 year later the bearing was making all sorts of noise.
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We had one at work that ended up the same way, with a noisy grinding fan.

Originally posted by: Scoop
I wouldn't recommend Zalman for silence. Ever. Not even for quiet computing.
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Well, BITD they were a great choice for quiet computing before the advent of all the more "modern" heatpipe coolers. Too bad they haven't innovated for around a half decade.
 
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